
Thy Will Be Done
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What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America.
Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies-all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region's indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this "well-documented" ( Los Angeles Times) book-the product of eighteen years of research-which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called "an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive."
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Colby is a cofounder of the Henry Demarest Lloyd Investigative Fund and former president of the National Writers Union. He is the author of DuPont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain, coauthor with Charlotte Dennett of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil,and a contributor to Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, edited by Kristina Borjesson.
Charlotte Dennett is an investigative journalist, author, and attorney. Her journalism career started in Beirut, Lebanon, at the weekly English language feature magazine, The Middle East Sketch, and at the Beirut Daily Star, where she was a reporter. Her journalistic work took her throughout the Middle East and later, while researching Thy Will Be Done, Latin America. Dennett is also the author of The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice. Her articles have appeared in the Huffington Post, the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.
Content
- Contents
- Series Introduction
- The End of an Era: An Introduction and Brief Update for the 2017 Edition
- Introduction
- I: The Legacy
- 1 The Baptist Burden
- 2 The Fundamentalist Controversy
- 3 Rethinking Missions
- 4 The Apostolic Vision
- 5 The Rites of Political Passage
- 6 Good Neighbors Make Good Allies
- 7 The Mexican Tightrope
- II: World War II: The Crucible
- 8 The Coordinator
- 9 The Sword of the Spirit
- 10 The Shining Dream
- 11 The Dancer
- 12 Preempting the Cold War
- 13 Latin America's First Cold War Coup
- III: Architects of Empire
- 14 American Wings over the Amazon
- 15 The Pretender at Bay
- 16 The Latin Road to Power
- 17 In the Wake of War-and the CIA
- IV: Prophets of Armageddon
- 18 Ike's Cold War General
- 19 Disarming Disarmament
- 20 Messengers of the Sun
- 21 The Hidden Persuaders
- 22 The Brotherhood
- 23 Ascent of the Hawk
- V: The Day of the Watchman
- 24 Deadly Inheritance
- 25 Building the Warfare State
- 26 Miracles Déjà Vu
- 27 Camelot Versus Pocantico: The Decline and Fall of John F. Kennedy
- VI: The Slaughter of the Innocents
- 28 To Turn a Continent
- 29 Operation Brother Sam
- 30 Beneath the Eyebrows of the Jungle
- 31 Mistaken Identities
- 32 Poisons of the Amazon
- 33 Death of a Continental Revolution
- 34 The Enemy Within
- 35 Apocalypse Now: The Tribes of Indochina
- 36 "Nation-Building" Through War
- 37 Tet: The Year of the Monkey
- 38 Nelson's Last Charge
- VII: A New World Order
- 39 Invasion of the Amazon
- 40 Rocky Horror Road Show
- 41 Forging the Dollar Zone
- 42 In the Age of Genocide
- 43 Critical Choices
- 44 Hiding the Family Jewels
- VIII: Days of Judgment
- 45 SIL Under Siege
- 46 The Betrayal
- 47 The Great Tribulation
- 48 Thy Will Be Done
- Appendix A: The Rockefeller Mission to the Americas (1969)
- Appendix B: Members of the Rockefeller Commission on CIA Abuses (1975)
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Image Gallery
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
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